Effendi Andoko
International Bachelor Program of Agricusiness
National Chung Hsing University
Taiwan
Wan Yu Liu
Department of Forestry
National Chung Hsing University
Taiwan
INTRODUCTION
The agricultural sector is one of the most contributive sectors for the Indonesian economy. Because ..

Kyusuk Kang
Professor, Seoul National University
Forests and forest administration in the republic of Korea
The Korean peninsula is located between 33˚ 7´ and 43˚ 1´ N Latitude, and 124˚ 11´ and 131˚ 53´ E longitude at the heart of the North Western Pacific, shar..

Yi-Yuan Su
Assistant Professor of Department of Law,
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
In 2014, the first civil litigation on plant variety right was raised at Changhua District Civil Court, Taiwan. The plaintiff argued the defendants planted his registered Citrus Fruits (Citrus madur..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Associate Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
After Taiwan (the Republic of China) joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2002, Taiwan must keep the promise of the WTO to regulate to the open market and lower tariff. In the..

Min-Hsien Yang Professor,
Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Introduction
Since 1961, the earth’s population has increased from three billion to seven billion and the global per capita income has risen three-fold. Although there has been a continuous decrease in farmland and farm labor—..

Tsung Lee
Executive Assistant,
Hwatwor company, Taichung, 402 Taiwan
INTRODUCTION
After the EU fipronil scandal on 11th of August 2017, the Council of Agriculture (COA) started to collect eggs from all layer farms on 19th of August. 3% of 1451 farms are contaminated with fipronil. 1.57 mil..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Associate Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture (http://www.coa.gov.tw/ws.php?id=2506373)
INTRODUCTION
Taiwan and the rest of the world are facing the challenges of labor shortage in agriculture..

Zou-nan Chou
Deputy Director
Dept. of Farmers’ Service
Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan
INTRODUCTION
For the past 30 years, the food consumption pattern has tremendously changed in Taiwan. Due to the increase in personal disposable income and more westernized life style, foo..

Min-Hsien Yang
Professor
Feng Chia University
Taiwan
Tung shen Yang
Research Fellow
Rural Economics Society of Taiwan
Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture(http://www.coa.gov.tw/ws.php?id=2506386)
Agriculture is a fundamental and crucial industry in the development of a coun..

Min-Hsien Yang
Professor
Feng Chia University
Taiwan
I Han
Associate Professor
Feng Chia University
Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture (http://www.coa.gov.tw/ws.php?id=2503971)
According to the “Agricultural Product and Verification Act”, the Council of Agricu..

Hao Wang
Department of Cooperative Economics and Social Entrepreneurship
Feng-Chia University
Taichung
Taiwan
According to the IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) 2015 report in State of Food Insecurity of the World, there is no “one-size-fits-all” solut..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Associate Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture
http://www.coa.gov.tw/ws.php?id=2506092)
The Council of Agriculture (COA) established new paradigm for agricultural development in response to tra..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Associate Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture (COA)
Mingdao University located at Changwha County will launch a Young-farmer Public-sponsored Course next year in order to educate more young gener..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Associate Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture
The United Nations (UN) and the international societies continue to save the poor and the hungry, and Taiwan has been an active participant in this e..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Associate Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture (COA)
In 2013, the Council of Agriculture (COA) started a program to select potential young farmers around Taiwan. The program aims to help young farme..

Liang-Jeng Hung
Chief, Division of International Affairs,
Industrial Development Center,
Agricultural Technology Research Institute (ATRI),
Taiwan
ABSTRACT
Taiwan, with more than hundred years of R&D efforts in agricultural science and technology, has relative higher citation ind..

National Farmers' Association, ROC
Submitted as a country report for the 26th East Asian Agriculture Organization Council (EAOC) Top Level Meeting on Sept. 28-30, 2016, Taipei, Taiwan
(The content is posted in pdf file. Please click pdf icon above).
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Yang, Min-Hsien, Ph.D.
Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Importance of TPP on economic development
It is a current strategy to reduce trade barriers and deepen the supply chain between countries by signing FTA/ ECA because the WTO Doha Agreement is still under-developed. There have been 381 valid ..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Associate Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture
The Council of Agriculture (COA) recently called on the 36 technology-oriented agribusinesses to formulate an alliance to enter the international mar..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture
According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) research, as high as 1.3 billion metric tons of food, or one-third of..

Food Security in Taiwan: Current Status and Strategies
Yang, Min-Hsien[1]
Feng Chia University, Taiwan
INTRODUCTION
The global extreme weather influences some major food production regions while many emerging countries speed up economic development and consume more and more foo..

The Trial of Direct Payment for Rice on the Second Harvest in 2016
Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture
More and more farmers in Taiwan are getting started to be aware of ..

Min-Hsien Yang
Feng Chia University, Taiwan
e-mail: yangmh@fcu.edu.tw
ABSTRACT
Crop insurance is one of the more important branches of agricultural insurance, and because of global climate change, it is becoming more important for the financial wellbeing of the agricultural sectors across ..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture
The first crop natural insurance policy has just been recently launched after years of efforts by Taiwan’s Council of Agricu..

Ronald G. MangubatAfter several rounds of negotiations in the past two years, Taiwan and the Philippines concluded the Agreement Concerning the Facilitation of Cooperation on Law Enforcement in Fisheries Matters on November 5, 2015. The pact was signed in Taipei by Representative Gary Song-huann Lin..

Su, Mao-Hsiang
Agriculture and Food Agency Council of Agriculture Executive Yuan
Chief Secretary,Nantou,Taiwan,R.O.C.
E-mail：sums@mail.afa.gov.tw
ABSTRACT
In the past, the price of Taiwanese mangoes was often low due to abundant production. In recent years, the g..

Chen-Te Huang
Department of Planning, Council of Agriculture,
Executive Yuan,The Republic of China
E-mail: cchuang@mail.coa.gov.tw
Current policies related to Direct Payment
The Direct Payments in Taiwan are basically complied with the norm in Annex 2 of the Agreeme..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Source: Council of Agriculture
How can consumers get information regarding product sources?
To close the gap between consumers and producers, the Council of Agriculture..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
The development of innovative agriculture is a mainstream strategy towards the enchancement of overall competitiveness under the globalization of free economies. It is critical..

Sen-Tyan LIN
Professor, Department of Law,
School of Humanities and Social Science,
Kainan University, Taiwan
e-mail: stlin2010@mail.knu.edu.tw
ABSTRACT
Farmland access problems faced by the young generation of farmers have recently become problematic. To address this issu..

Chen-Te Huang
Department of Planning,
Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan,
The Republic of China
E-mail: cchuang@mail.coa.gov.tw
ABSTRACT
The average farm size was 1.03 hectare and only 21.7% of the farm households had a farm size with area more than 1 hectare in Taiwan..

The Interchange Association, Japan’s de facto embassy in Taiwan, has called on the Taiwan government to cancel its plans to tighten regulations on Japanese food imports right after the Executive Yuan recently declared that it will launch the measure on schedule.
According to Joseph Yeh ..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
The Council of Agriculture (COA) and the Ministry of Education (MOE) are jointly studying ways on how to minimize the gap of academia and industry in the agricultural sector in..

Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I Han, Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
I. Background
Taiwan is a densely populated country. The total size of its farmland is around 0.8 million hectares. The number of farm households is abou..

Starting May 15, Taiwan’s Ministry of Health (MHW) has set new regulations for Japanese food imports. The MHW announcement emphasized that imported Japanese food products must carry documents and radiation residue results issued by the Japanese government, agencies approved by th..

Min-Hsien Yang,
Professor, Department of International Trade,
Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Abstract
Rice is the staple food and a major crop in Taiwan. Governments have historically emphasized rice self-sufficiency through market price support programs and import restri..

Min-Hsien Yang1 and I Han2
1Professor
2Assistant Professor
Dept. of International Trade
Feng Chia University
No. 100, Wenhwa Road, Seatwen, Taichung 40724
Taiwan, ROC
Because of the rainfall shortage during the second half year of 2014, the major water ..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Preface
Floriculture growing in Taiwan has been a long history, only since 1970s, floriculture growing has become a developing industry. In 1971, Taiwan Floriculture Development Association (TFDA) was orga..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Agricultural products provide the basic needs in our lives. However, harvests are frequently affected by natural or other causes so that most farmers and fishermen earn lower profits in production than do peop..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In response to regulations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and in order to show to the international community the results of Taiwan’s implementing the mitigation of..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The agricultural management style in Taiwan is represented mainly by small-scale farms. This makes it difficult to accumulate capital, increase investments, and expand the scale of operations. It i..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In order to implement the Domestic Beef Traceability System, the Council of Agriculture (COA) put into effect the compulsory certificate of origin for cattle slaughtering, which regulates the use of standard e..

Kun-Fong Kuo
Farmers’ Service Department, Council of Agriculture
Executive Yuan (COA), Taipei, Taiwan
E-mail: kkf@mail.coa.gov.tw
ABSTRACT
This paper describes the process by which the Council of Agriculture in Taiwan selected 100 young farmers (average age of..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The Council of Agriculture (COA) has offered various kinds of welfare programs to farmers in order for them to maintain their living standards and economic security. “ The Temporary Statute Regarding the..

Hwang-Jaw Lee Ph. D
Abstract
In the past years, the changing factors of agriculture developments in Taiwan are influenced greatly both internally and externally. Facing the challenges of new environment, it is critical to establish industrial value chain operation ..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In order to promote tree-planting and greening, the Forestry Bureau organized the "Arbor Month" drive running from March 1st to 31st. During this period, the 8 forest district offices invited lo..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
To assist the implementation of animal-friendly hen breeding, the Council of Agriculture drew up the Animal-friendly Egg Production System Definition and Guideline, and delivered it to relevant government auth..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Chicken meat is one of the daily necessities in Taiwan. In order to strengthen the management over chilled and defrosted meat, the Council of Agriculture announced that the enzyme inspection method will s..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
To let the young generation eat more healthy food, the Council of Agriculture has assisted the New Taipei City Government to establish the Organic Vegetable Supply System, which integrates farm production..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In order to actively develop a market-oriented, high added-value agriculture industry supported by advanced technology, the Council of Agriculture officially announced the establishment of the Agricultura..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The Council of Agriculture (COA) is encouraging restaurant owners who serve 100% rice products to adopt the Taiwan Rice Quality Seal. The aim is to help people become aware of the source of rice the..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Taiwan will establish its first marine wildlife sanctuary to protect the Chinese white dolphin, or Sousa chinensis. This was announced last April 21 by the Forestry Bureau under the ROC Council of Agricul..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Four large corporations in the restaurant and hotel industry in Taiwan, under the assistance of the Council of Agriculture (COA), promised to give priority to choosing foods with traceability s..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The Council of Agriculture gives full support to the development of organic farming in suitable regions while integrating production, lifestyle, and ecology together. Moreover, organic agriculture should ..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Taiwan signed the Agreement between New Zealand and the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu on Economic Cooperation (ANZTEC) with New Zealand on July 10 th, 2013 which not only will..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Taiwan signed the Agreement between New Zealand and the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu on Economic Cooperation (ANZTEC) with New Zealand on July 10 th 2013. Accordin..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In the hopes of providing youngsters with a one-of-a-kind holiday experience, the Forestry Bureau of COA launched its first-ever summer camp in 2012, in which student volunteers got up close and personal with the na..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
With the increasing awareness of food safety, consumers have put more and more emphasis on food origin and food safety. Consumers also purchase agricultural products from internet based cyber stores. This awar..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Imagine every dining table serving only TAP products.
To achieve this vision, intense promotions were organized by the Council of Agriculture (COA), in order to promote TAP products, offer better chan..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The processing and the export of Taiwan's down products is the third largest in the world, which yielded an export value of US$254 million (equal to NTD 7.48 billion) and is regarded as the role model prod..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Stray dogs are a big problem in Taiwan. Most of the stray dogs were abandoned by their owners, and local governments have devoted efforts to address this issue.
According to sample survey conduc..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The mechanization and automation of agriculture are direct pathways to increase the production efficiency and product quality, by reducing cost and labor demands while improving working environment. Sinc..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Fertilizers are important materials to the production potential of agricultural land, which are used to increase production potential, maintain high yield and product quality. They will degrade land ferti..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The Standards were enacted in accordance with Article 9 of the Food Administration Act. The standards were first promulgated on October 30, 1999, and then were amended three times, the..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Risk management
In recent years, global climate change has caused instability in the production and supply of staple foods around the world. In response, and on the basis of concepts drawn from &ldquo..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Marching towards International stage to achieve the goal of “Based in Taiwan to Deploy throughout World”
In recent years the COA has set “based in Taiwan to deploy throughout the wor..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Oncidium grown in Taiwan has excellent quality and is one of the major export cut flowers to Japan. Some 27 million Oncidiums were exported to Japan in 2012, accounting for some 92% of Japan imported Onci..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In collaboration with the Ecological Agriculture and Natural Foods Promotion Association of the Republic of China (EANFA), the Council of Agriculture (COA) has successfully nurtured eight regions across the na..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The Logo of Certified Agricultural Standards (CAS) represents the certification for the Taiwan premium domestic agricultural produce and their processed products. According to the principl..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
It is estimated that a total of 20,000 chickens are killed in traditional markets in Taiwan each day, a relatively small number compared to the number of birds butchered in the 79 licensed poultry slaughterhou..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
To prompt the transactions and boost the utilization of farm land, as well as to encourage the long-term leasing of farm land by old peasants or farmers not keen on farming, the Council of Agriculture has..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The Rural Rejuvenation Act was promulgated on August 4, 2010. The Act is enacted to facilitate the rural sustainability, its revitalization and rejuvenation, to improve production infrastructure, to conse..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In Taiwan, the government has had a program for purchasing rice at guaranteed prices since 1974. However, Taiwan’s rice procurement policy underwent adjustments over the years. The unlimited rice procure..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Rice is the most important staple food in Taiwan. In recent years, about 260,000 hectares of paddy field was cultivated to rice annually with an output of about 1.2 million tons of brown rice. The Agricu..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In order to assist farmers to produce vegetables and fruits which are safe for consumption and easy to identify, the Agriculture and Food Agency (AFA) has been working on consumers’ awareness of ..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
While the improving economy and information technology, people are increasingly aware of food security of agricultural products. Therefore, organic agricultural products have now become familiar and popular. F..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The Taiwan government has established a complete control system to monitor and test pesticide residues on agricultural products. COA is in charge of the process before products go to the market and th..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The promotion of traceability in agricultural goods is one of the main itineraries on New Agricultural Project by the Council of Agriculture (COA). Ever since the Agricultural Production and Certification Act have ..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
The Council of Agriculture (COA) promoted to establish new agricultural value chains as its new policy direction for 2013. In the face of challenges such as increased economic and trade liberalization, cl..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In response to domestic demand for gastronomic diversity, Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA) has been developing rice-based food products in recent years, ranging from the creation of various inn..

Chan-Ik Chun
Agricultural Economist, FFTC
On Nov. 8, the Cabinet of Taiwan government tightened rules governing eligibility for the elderly farmers’ monthly pension in a bid to prevent “pseudo-farmers” cashing in on the welfare system which costs the governmen..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Food safety has become a major challenge for many countries in the past years. The safety issues exist in every process of the food chain, such as: from production, manufact..

Ching-Cheng Chang
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University
Email: Emily@econ.sinica.edu.tw
ABSTRACT
The report focuses on the current state of food security in Taiwan, main indicators and key chal..

Rhung-Jieh Woo
Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University
Abstract
Trade liberalization is an irreversible trend keep influencing the domestic and international agricultural sectors. However, agricultural trade liberalization not ..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
With the combination of the Agricultural Development Act amendment (de-regulation) in 2000, and open trading of agriculture land and legacy issues from land reform; arose a set of issues. Arable land have..

Hwang-Jaw Lee PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Some crops have lost their competitive advantage in traditional export markets since Taiwan joined the WTO. Many agriculture operation entities have either moved onto different crop growing or opening up new reven..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Preface
Agriculture is the foundation of a country and it holds a significant responsibility for its citizens. With the rapid growth of our global economy, agriculture GDP has decreased gradually; but, it is sti..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Recreational agriculture, is a secondary agricultural business which is derived from agriculture itself. The simple concept is to combine agriculture, lifestyle, and ecology as a whole. The key elements are: 1) agricult..

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Taiwan is an island with limited resources. Through the years, the major focus is to promote production. Many policies were established to ensure self-sufficiency with selected export. In recent years, Taiwan ..

Dr. Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
In recent years, global climate change has caused instability in agricultural production and supply of staple foods around the world. In response, and on the basis of concepts drawn from “risk m..

Dr. Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
As global warming continues to trigger a series of volatile weather events across the globe, all food production and supply chains face increasing levels of disruption, the COA pointed out. In the face of soarin..

Dr. Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Taiwan has long faced young force exodus. For one, the aging population in the rural areas has caused worries of agricultural human fault. To promote the development of a sustainable agriculture, gove..

Dr. Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
"Free Economic Demonstration Zone--Value-added Agriculture" Key point of the Policy
In response to the challenge of regional economic integration, the Council of Agriculture (COA) will ..

Dr. Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Cloud computing, which utilizes the internet to provide remote services to distant users, has been aided by the proliferation of smartphones and information technology in recent years. The future of c..

Dr. Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
A “golden agricultural corridor” will be built in the western counties of Yunlin and Changhua. The action plan comes as part of the government’s broader Economic Power-Up Plan (2012)..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Preface
With the development of global logistic industry and advancement of information technology, the distance between countries and places has become much shorter and closer; the interactions between entities..

Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Agriculture in Taiwan
Taiwan is located in the subtropics mountains and rugged hills cover two-thirds of the land, so only about 830,000 hectares of land are suitable for agriculture. The average farm covers 1.1..